Saturday, December 22, 2018

MW Free Radio (Wizard Radio) reports on his Twitter feed: "News reaching us that British
shortwave pirate Bogusman was today raided by
Ofcom after transmitting on international distress frequency
6312 kHz. More to follow..."

Bogusman & The Ghoul have been some of the most regular of the British shortwave pirates with broadcasts most weekends and recently been testing at the top end of medium wave. But it shows stations need to careful what frequencies they broadcast on.

Monday, December 17, 2018

I received this eQSL from new Danish low powered station Radio Oz-Viola, which has been testing on weekend afternoons, using 5825 kHz, just down from fellow Danish station World Music Radio on 5840 kHz.

On Sunday December 30th FRS-Holland will be on air with its annual Holiday Season broadcast.
The broadcast will be on 7700//58xx between 08:52- 14:00 UTC/ 09:52- 15:00 CET.
Similar to November 18th, the full broadcast will be repeated in the afternoon. More info follows later in December.

FRS-Holland offers you the opportunity to send in your December greetings to radio friends and relatives. Your contributions are highly appreciated and will add something special to our programmes!

You can easily produce a little (written) message and send it to [frs@frsholland.nl]. It only takes a few minutes of your spare time....

We raffle a radio DVD among those who participate in our December broadcast with their Seasonal greetings. We'd like to ask you to do it as soon as possible as some shows will be recorded within 10 days.

Don't hesitate but just do it!

If you have the opportunity to send in an audio (mp3) clip you are more than welcome!
Written messages are also welcome via POBox 2701, 6049 ZG Herten, The Netherlands.

Join us ringing out 2018....the FRS-Holland staff is looking forward to hear from you...

Tuesday, November 27, 2018

*1629 1747 Radio Spakenburg (tent). "Girl Like You," joining in the QSO. SINPO 34433.*1650 1737 Radio Drustoomjager. Country music, back a few minutes later for QSO with Monte Carlo. SINPO 34333.6205 1658 Laser Hot Hits. Blues rock, signal just above noise level. SINPO 23332.6275 1710 Radio Johnny Tobacco. Dutch music, ID and greetings, said he was beaming to "Middle East and South Pacific." SINPO 54444.

Following our 38th Anniversary broadcasts on August 26th & September 2nd, FRS will take to the air with a full regular broadcast on Sunday November 18th.

Programmes will commence at 08:52 UTC/ 09:52 CET and will last four hours. Close down will be at 13:00 UTC/ 14:00 CET after which the complete programmes will see a full repeat until just after 17:00 UTC/ 18:00 CET.

Attention: in the morning/ early afternoon programmes will be aired at 7700//9300 kHz. During the second run starting just after 13:00 UTC/ 14:00 CET, the 31 mb frequency could be changed into 9213 kHz (will be announced later, also listen to FRS Magazine/ FRS goes DX for updated info).

Tune in ...the best in music, many interesting (radio) related items and DX news. It will be worth while to tune in!

Reports but moreover: personal comments are more than welcome.
P.O.Box 2702, 6049 ZG Herten, The Netherlands or by e-mail: frs@frsholland.nl .

"Thanks everyone, who wrote me reports here! It was a fun one month, but it is over.
"Unfortunatelly, today, while I was testing some, the Hungarian telecommunication authorities showed up, so looks like no more transmissions from Hungary.
"We had problems for like a year now with more and more frequent pirate radio raids on 3 meter band, so I tried to move to shortwave, and hoped the best.
"Sadly, they told me, they are monitoring these frequencies too, and no mercy to unlicensed activities even on sw, so they killed my sw station too, pretty quickly."

The GHFW occurs the 1st weekend in April and the first weekend in November every year. The idea is that it's a set time for listeners and stations to try testing to different parts of the world.

Over the past few years, the high frequencies have not been great for propagation between Europe and North America, but stations have still been able to reach other continents by operating at other times, etc.

"The Empire Radio birthday on short wRave was intended as a "one off" programme only... I am sure that you are absolutely heartbroken about this and are finding this difficult to recover from, but fear not because there is nothing to fear but fear itself....

Apart from the above ridiculous paragraph, there is however a solution to overcome the insurmountable odds and no doubt you will be overjoyed to hear that the ALBERT HALL uncensored programme continues on 259!

But enough of my silly puns and time to abide by the accompanying photo.